Book Review: Your Best Year Ever! A 5 Step Plan For Achieving Your Most Important Goals
“If our habits of thinking are beneficial,
We tend to experience positive results,
Such as happiness, personal satisfaction,
Even material success.
If our habits of thinking are counterproductive,
however
We often experience the opposite: unhappiness,
dissatisfaction and the nagging feeling that the
deck is somehow stacked against us”
Your Best Year Ever is an amazing book to start off the new year with. If you’re someone who loves to set new year's resolutions or sets lots of goals only to fall out of motivation in a few weeks, this book is a MUST read. If you want to start off the new year with a whole new outlook on life, start off by reading this book.
Your Best Year Ever lists the following 5 Steps to follow for you to achieve your goals and to enjoy your best year ever:
Believe the Possibility
In this step, the author describes all the steps to change your mindset from a limiting belief system to a mindset of liberating truths. We all have that friend who drains us whenever we get together right? Do you also have that friend you walk away feeling energized by? Your Best Year Yet explains why and how these people's minds work and the types of limiting beliefs we have that might be holding us back. We want to be around people who are abundance thinkers, people who lift us up rather than tear us down.
Complete the Past:
One of the most common barriers we encounter in life is our past. We all have things in our past that hold us back. In order to fully move forward in life, we must move beyond the past. In this step, the author explains how to move through your past and even use your past regrets to your advantage. Learn to find things in your previous regrets that will push you to turn them around and drive you.
Design your Future
This is such an important step that comes up in so many ways. From vision boards to writing out our goals, this is a must-have! Your Best Year Ever explains how writing down our goals helps us overcome our resistance to them. Having goals and reviewing them regularly will help us stay on track. Risk is your friend, Without risk you can’t achieve goals. For each goal, the author suggests setting a deadline. The tighter the deadline, the more productive you’ll be! This section is full of so many gold nuggets I’d pin and nail down.
Find Your Why
If you don’t know your why, you have nothing. Your why is your basis for everything you’re working towards. “People lose their way when they lose their “why,” and this reason is why new year's resolutions fail. This chapter goes through so many important steps from discovering your why, what’s at stake, and why accountability partners are so essential.
Make it Happen
This step starts begins by reviewing the previous 4 steps and how they help you accomplish that 5th and final step. Step 5 works through all the possible triggers you may feel. It teaches you how to brainstorm possible triggers to help you set yourself up for success and anticipate these potential triggers. The chapter ends with all sorts of sample goal templates to take you through various ideas for ensuring your progress in your goals.
If you are looking to crush 2022, this book will DEFINITELY help you achieve your goals, starting from how to set goals to overcoming all obstacles you might encounter along your way. Set goals, take risks, step out of your comfort zone and HAVE FUN!
Melanie McConnell is a Professional Organizer and the owner of Mello Spaces. She helps busy professionals and parents get the organized home of their dreams. Check out her website www.mellospaces.com and follow her on Instagram: @mellospaces
Florena Davies is a Professional Organizer and Owner of Organize by Flo. She uses her experience as a wife and mother of 2 to create real life organizational systems and changes for work and home that allow our 2 worlds to co-exist and 'Flo" together. Check out her website at https://www.organizebyflo.com/ and on instagram @organizebyflo.
Marybeth Welty helps women create calm and healthy homes and lives. With over 12 years of experience in organizing, interior design, sustainable building, and mindful living, Marybeth is passionate about improving your mental health, your work, your relationships, and supporting the life of your dreams by starting with where you live, your home. You can book a free meeting with her at https://sustainablelifestylesolutions.com/20-min-free and connect with her on Instagram at @this_sustainable_lifestyle.